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Fix Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and VMWare Workstation 7 issue
After you upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, you might have noticed that VMWare has stopped working and can’t compile one of it’s modules. The solution to this is simple: download this patch and this script in the same directory. Make the script executable with
chmod +x patch-modules.sh
and run it with
./patch-modules.sh
Answer with “Y” to the questions and let [...] Continue reading
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Install older .RUN and .BIN archives in Linux
When running older .RUN and .BIN archives in Linux, you might get the following (or a similar) error:
Verifying archive integrity…tail: cannot open `+6′ for reading: No such file or directoryError in check sums 1237260170 2341625838The solution is to make the installer believe it’s being run on an older version of GNU/Linux. Open a Terminal and [...] Continue reading
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Find out details about your system’s temperature
To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple
acpi -V
to get a listing similar to this one:
Battery 0: Full, 100%Battery 0: design capacity 7800 mAh, last full capacity 4988 mAh = 63%Adapter 0: on-lineThermal 0: ok, 63.5 degrees CThermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 126.0 [...] Continue reading
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Quickly reinstall your favourite applications in Ubuntu
So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS:
sudo dpkg –get-selections > package_list.txt
Save the text file on a thumb drive, format the [...] Continue reading
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Get rid of OpenOffice.org’s logo in Linux
If you for whatever reason dislike OpenOffice.org’s logo or want to gain an extra few seconds of speed while the application loads, you can disable OO.o’s logo by editing the
/etc/openoffice/sofficerc
file and modifying the
Logo=1
value into
Logo=0
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Greatly improve the speed of Firefox 3
We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:
1. Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.2. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise“3. Use the search bar above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set it’s value to True.4. Create a new [...] Continue reading
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Use the same GTK theme for applications started as root
If you start a GTK GUI with root permissions and you notice that it uses the old GTK theme, you can make all applications started as root to use your current theme by doing this:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themessudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.iconssudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fontsThis will basically create symlinks to your icons, fonts [...] Continue reading
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Play videos packed in RAR without extracting them in Linux
Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don;t want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. You won’t be able to rewind and move fast forward within the file, but you’ll [...] Continue reading
Posted in Applications, files, movie, Multimedia, RAR, Syndicated, unrar, video, VLC
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Enable Flash support in Google Chrome for Linux
If you want to have Flash support in Google Crome, the Linux version, you can enable it like this:Make a plugins directory in the Google Chrome folder
sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/pluginscd to it
cd /opt/google/chrome/pluginsmake a link from Firefox’s Flash Player plugin into the newly created folder
sudo ln -s ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Now launch the browser with this command:
google-chrome –enable-plugins
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Make applications remember their last state in Ubuntu
If you want your most-used applications already opened when you boot up into your Ubuntu box, all you have to do is go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and in the Options tab check the box next to “Automatically remember running applications when logging out“.
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